Polar Regions by digby Steve Benen: It's worth noting, from time to time, the practical and ideological problems with this approach to problem solving. The parties disagree -- as they should;...

Lies My Insurance Industry Told Me by dday I know I'm heartened by the news that Democrats plan to develop a plan to communicate on health care. Who thought of that, give him or her a cookie! ...

Blanket Pardons by digby Evidently, there's talk of Bush issuing a blanket pardon to anyone involved in his torture regime before he leaves office and Salon is also reporting that there are some plans afoot in the Obama camp to initiate a broad con...

Federal investigators probing the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks recovered samples of human hair from a mailbox in Princeton, N.J...

Nothing like deploying a bunch of cops on the streets of American cities, looking for marauding African Americans to help get out the vote:...

Just Call Her Honey by digby So it looks like Carly Fiorina is going to go for the cat fight strategy in her effort to unseat Barbara Boxer. Here's Greg Sargent: Carly Fiorina, the businesswoman who hopes to be the GOP challenger to Senator ...

Nepotism For Dummies by digby As with most aristocracies, the younger generations tend to be rather, shall we say, weak and this is likely to be an understatement when it comes to Little Luke Russert. Look at this exchange between him and proud...

Going Back To Arkansas by digby As we move our attention back to the Senate on health care, Howie Klein discusses the difficulty of putting pressure on the insulated, privileged House of Lords --- and then explains once again why Blue America...

Set Up by digby If you are watching the pro-coverage of the Ft. Hood memorial service, you should tune into CNN to hear Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson lay out the conditions for Obama to tell the American people that this tragedy means they must be...

Status Quo by digby NY Times: President Obama suggested Monday that he was not comfortable with abortion restrictions inserted into the House version of major health care legislation, and he prodded Congress to revise them. The only thing he seemed...